Post #11

Film Noir is a genre that is very new to me, so I was very excited to start the Asphalt Jungle. The movie is challenging to follow, but is shaping up to be very good once the actual plan goes into action. I think Emmerich is very foolish to believe that he could manipulate Dr. Riedenschneider so easily. Dr. R already suspects him, and has made an ally in Dix if a potential problem arises. I also think that for a man who is supposedly so intelligent and powerful as Emmerich, he is making remarkably stupid decisions. Though getting involved with the plan at all is not a good idea, I can understand it because he is getting desperate, and also because if he did not back the plan there would be no movie. But by making a deal with Brannom (which he also may not intend to keep, though there is no evidence of this as of yet), he is setting himself up for failure even if the team succeeds. If they are successful and steal the riches and stones, he must still somehow sneak away to a far off country without the others catching him. I find it highly unlikely that he will make it out of this movie without either dying, going to prison, or acquiring none of the take. Also he has been shown cheating on his wife with Marilyn Monroe's character (I forgot her name), and since this film was made at the time of the Hays codes, something bad must happen to him by the end.